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openA Playstation 2 mech game. Videogame
Rented this from blockbuster ages ago... that should say alot.
Gameplay: It was a "virtual mech" game, where you controlled customized robots that would fight in a virtual battlefield against an AI. I also remember a part named "Umbra" or "Penumbra" or something.
Story: people would pit these virtual bots against each other in virtual arenas. Losing seemed to have some sort of psychological effect. Also, I remember a dramatic twist: the whole town was secretly inside a giant dome, and the rest of the world experienced some sort of apocalypse from one of these rogue robots. You eventually exit the dome to fight it, but I only got so far before returning it.
My Google-fu has failed me for years, as have other forums. Hopefully the TV Tropes hivemind can help.
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An Edutainment Game from the late 90s (pretty sure it was on a CD). It was of the point-and-click variety.
It started at a squirrel's house (who lives in a Hobbit-style house under a tree). The squirrel may have been a flying squirrel, brown and was completely batshit insane - Ambiguous Gender. After an introduction you would (along with a Chew Toy sidekick) get into a spaceship that's on a rail (it may have been underground, not sure) and solve maths puzzles to open up giant doors to continue.
I can't remember much apart from that and one part where you had to either point out the vowels or put the correct vowels in words while the Chew Toy was slowly lowered into a vat of acid/lava. There was also this calm female character who would start that level/part by telling you what the vowels are ("and sometimes 'y'" has been stuck in my head ever since).
I may have confused some of this with other games. Part of me thinks that it's very similar (style-wise) to Baba Yaga and the Magic Geese but that might be a coincidence.
EDIT: I also want to say that you travelled to the past for a history lesson but that might be a different game.
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A Web Game; you have to find nine people. you start in a dark bronish area, with neon blue mazes. the people are orange, and to find them all, you don't get anyone. you find a maze somewhere where the 8th person is, and eventually, you get to find all nine of the people.
i can't find it anywhere. it's on kongregate, im 100% certain.
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I remember when I was very small, my father had this game installed on his computer that I could never beat. I was born in the late 90s, but my dad was around to fight in Vietnam, so I have no idea when it might have been released, other than before 2004-ish. I recall it was some kind of sci-fi strategy game, I think. I only remember part of one specific level, so I don't know how most of the game worked. I remember starting with a small squad of infantry trying to sneak past a number of enemy towers. The terain was sparsely forested and heavily snowed. If anyone has any idea what game this is, I would vastly appreciate help.
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Evening everyone, today I'm looking for 2 things, the problem is that I have very vague descriptions.
1. This one I am asking for a friend. She says it's a game around the NES or SNES era, it's anime-ish and apparently you play as a girl throughout different points of her life; elementary school, high school, university and such. Also she remembers having to escape a building (possibly a school) that is on fire.
2. This one has tortured me for long. I played this game around 15 years ago, it was on PC and it was a 3D space shooter. As a kid I never got a handle of it so I never got past the intro stage. You are a red (I believe) spaceship outside, what I suppose to be, a space station and try to defend it from an army of ships.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tanks in advance.
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I remember playing this game when I was in kindergarten. It was a computer game, and it was about this kid who's obsessed with a superhero, and has a lunchbox of said superhero. Somehow, he gets transported into another world, where these jerkish trees take his cape(?) and lunchbox. I think there were multiple endings, and I definitely remember a talking minecart. I think the game was a point in click and/or puzzle game.
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This one is for my friend who is not an internet person so sorry I don't have any more details.
The story goes that around middle school/early highschool (which would be 2005-2010ish for us) she would watch game trailers with her brothers, or AM Vs made with game trailers, something like that, and she really liked this one with like, fancy armor, and a love story and two cities fighting each other.
She thought it was Final Fantasy but it doesn't sound like any of the main series FF games to me. I'm guessing it had anime-realism graphics in the trailer. I actually spit balled Dragon Age because she kept talking about the armor, but it's definitely more anime-esque. The armor was more western middle aged, but fancier like roman armor. Her words not mine.
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I'm looking for a video game with a blue-haired protagonist whom I'm pretty sure had a monkey tail. When they lost health they'd turn into an actual monkey, and when they powered-up they'd glow and their hair flashed in pink and yellow. They somersaulted instead of jumping normally and the game had a jungle setting. I think it's a Japanese game because the style looked like anime.
I don't know the year or the system; I played it on a CD that had PC versions of old video games.
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So yeah, there was a time long ago when once in a while I bought these magazines that came with CD-RO Ms promising "hundreds of games you don't even need to install!", of course most of them were flash games (most either shitty or just minutes worth of meh gameplay) and other not made in flash but still following the same free scheme. Anyway, I'm trying to remember the name of this one, here are some things I can dig up from memory:
- It was not Flash, it was a distinct executable (maybe DOS? It was the time before you needed fucking emulation to even touch anything DOS)
- 2D sidescroller
- The graphics were pixelated-ish
- You play as this generic looking guy wearing a yellow shirt and jeans (maybe the title was his name?)
- First level is a forest
- There was a help screen explaining the player's moves and some flavor text about things
- Health pick-ups are stuff like soda and burritos
- And the final boss of said first stage is Darth Vader (not a Star Wars game, mind you, he just shows up out of nowhere for some reason), you get a lightsaber to fight him.
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This was a children's game I played in the late 90s. It may have come in a cereal box, because I don't remember it having a jewel case. It was about geography, but it wasn't Carmen Sandiego - the host was this guy who was dressed as an explorer with khakhis and a pith helmet. I think he had a Scottish accent, and the music had a lot of bagpipes in it. Ideas? Thanks!
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I remember playing a game on a school computer during either first, second, or third grade (so some time between 2003 and 2006). It was an educational game where you were in some kind of alien/monster world and you got to make your own alien/monster character. I only remember that one of the things you could make was a waffle with eyes, or something. That's all I can remember.
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I remember getting one game in the early 2000s. I was a young kid, and got them with a pair of Hush Puppies shoes. The game was a point and click affair, which you playing as a boy. There was a speaking inanimate object (I think it was a book) was a book which could give you either a hat or a pair of shoes (given where I got the game, probably the latter) which allows the main character to understand them. However, said inanimate object requires a picture of the animal in question, as well as a recording of the sound they make (I think) to create this item. The main character's family is also around the place, asking for items such as a toffee hammer, but I never progressed far enough to find out anything major about the plot.
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Ok, I've been trawling the interwebs looking for this one...help me tropers, you're my only hope.
The game I'm thinking of came out for PC in the 90s. It was either for Windows 95 or 98, though I think I played it on a later version. Regardless, it was a collections of puzzles/riddles/brainteasers, and I remember it being animated in a cartoonish way. In fact, I believe your cursor was one of those cartoon-character gloves, the white ones with the three fingers instead of four. There's one puzzle in particular I remember: there was a red-yellow-green traffic light, and you had three unmarked switches, with one going to each light. You had to figure out which switch went to which light, but you couldn't see the lights from the screen with the switches, and you only had opportunity to flip them: you could flip any or none of the switches, go back to the screen with the lights, and then return to the screen with the switches in order to label them. You only had one chance at this, for some reason...I think there may have been a dog that would chase you away from the lights?
The solution involved switching one light on, leaving one off, and turning the third on then off. I think you had butter, which you would then take with you outside. One light would be on—that was the switch you left on. Two would be off, but one—the one that you'd switched on then off—would still be warm, which you could find out either by burning your hand on it, or by melting the butter on it.
Any ideas?
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There's this Japanese video game that starts out as a cutesy dating-sim, but once you choose one of the lovers, the [[Yandere]](s) remembers your choices even if you start a new play through, and she plays with the Fourth Wall. What game is it?
Also, what's the trope when one playthrough affects subsequent playthroughs, à la Undertale?
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Okay so here's what I remember about the game. It was on a CD, and was for the computer. The main character was a tribal boy (SMALL chance of being a girl) and I think it was a sort of interactive story game, like a visual novel, at least at the beginning. (Don't quote me on this.) It started (or at least had) a picture of him sitting on a hammock or something in a really green forest/jungly area; that could have been the cover or a picture at the beginning of the game. The boy had tan skin and shoulder-length black hair and (possibly) squinted eyes.
I am 20 years old and I believe I played this game when I was under ten years old, so it at least ten years old. It was also not on a floppy disk.
My dad seems to think his name started with a K, and that it was something like Kioko. It is not Tak, Jungle Book, or Keepsake, Akuji The Heartless, or Flipper & Lopaka.
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Don't know if there is already a topic (Please move it there, if there is), but all that I remember is that it featured a town(???) under siege by a fairly large two legged, talking dragon (red, I think), and that it wanted to mate with Human women. There were other dragon too (I think).
Could be Western made, and 3-D, made for the PS 2, or 3!!!
Discovered the game on this site, and want to re-discover it again. Please make it happen!!
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There is a game on the App Store that I want to revisit, but I can't find it for the life of me.
The game was a city building simulator that had anthropromorphic animals. It would open with a cutscene of a toucan stuck in traffic. He would look up and see a billboard advertising the town you play in. The toucan is in fact the first animal you have in the game.
There were two game mechanics I can remember.
1. When an animal moves in, you have to "make their dreams come true". This would require assigning animals to the shops they want to work at, having other animals move in, etc.
2. The game would heavily rely on location, as this was sort of the companies thing. You would get extra coins and carrots (yes, carrots) from shops near you in real life every few hours.
That's all I remember.
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There was this game I never actually played but remember looking at a strategy guide for it at a store. It was a Japanese RPG for console (not sure which but it was in 2007) and looked kind of similar to Phantasy Star Online. I remember looking at the section about the monsters in the game and some of the monsters had really weird names like "existence" I think the title was 2 words
I played a pc educational game in the mid 2000s it was about riding in a train through different lands the only thing I can remember is one of the lands was themed to math rulers